January 19, 2021 10.00 -17.00 (Amsterdam time, UTC +1), on zoom.
Workshop animated by Marie Beauchamps (Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellow, Queen Mary University of London).
This workshop makes space to explore a diverse and creative pallet of writing styles in academic writing practices.
The choices we make when we write have profound effects on the reality that we observe. Giving an account of our observations requires a multitude of styles of writing for achieving the greatest accuracy. Finding the most accurate style of writing for a particular purpose sometimes implies letting go of a seemingly neutral style of writing, instead embracing a plurality of voices, such as staging a dialogue or exploring a more poetic style. This workshop aims to explore what happens when we loosen up the frame of our habitual academic writing practice, inviting multi-layered stories to bubble up and become part of the conversation unfolding on the page.
In this one-day, interactive workshop, I will lead you through a series of hands on exercises to make you experience creative writing within your academic practice. You will practice writing scenes, working with sensory details, defining the main characters driving the story of your work, and staging conversations between them. There will be time for peer-review, and we will take time to reflect on what it takes to make space for creativity within our academic work.
Practicalities:
- The workshop is by now fully booked. I will develop more of these in the future, in different formats. If you are interested to receive future communication about future workshops, please leave your details here: https://forms.gle/TKayfMMo7AjqguYq6.
- Space is limited due to the interactive nature of the workshop. I’m working on adding extra dates in the future. Information will follow in due time. You can leave your contact details via the link above to receive information.
- A zoom link will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop.
- Participants are asked to bring a text to work on. It can be an outline, a very first draft, a finished article, or everything in-between, as long as you feel comfortable working with it for the time of the workshop.
If you want to join but cannot attend the full day, please contact me (m.beauchamps@qmul.ac.uk) to discuss alternatives.